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Fairfield Bridge is a tied-arch bridge on the Waikato River in Fairfield, Hamilton, New Zealand. It is one of six bridges in the city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hamilton's bridges )〕 It spans from River Road, on the east bank of the river, to Victoria Street, on the west side.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fairfield Bridge, Waikato )〕 It was registered as a Category I 'Historic Place' with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust on 30 August 1990.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fairfield Bridge )〕 The Great Race starts just north of the bridge, with the rowers passing under it during the race. ==Design and construction== The bridge is 139 metres (457 ft) long, and has two land spans,〔 and three arches which are wide, long and above the road at their highest point.〔 The arches and spans are made from reinforced concrete.〔 It was designed by Stanley Jones of Auckland, and Roose Shipping started construction in August 1934. The bridge was opened in April 1937 by the Minister of Public Works Bob Semple.〔 It was the fourth large reinforced concrete tied-arch bridge in New Zealand, and the second over the Waikato River. When the building of a bridge in the Fairfield suburb was proposed, many people felt that it would seldom be used.〔 Sixty-five years later, in 2002, there were about 20,000 vehicles travelling across the bridge each day. During the building of foundations for the bridges, an excavator came across a burial cave in the bank of the river. The preserved heads of several Māori were found in it. In 1991 a reconstruction project costing NZ$1.1 million took place, as the bridge was suffering the effects of concrete cancer,〔 discovered in 1980. During January 2011, the bridge was closed for three weeks for maintenance.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Road works and the impact on traffic )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fairfield Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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